Meetings
Before the meeting — what's on the agenda, in plain language. After it — a recap of what the body actually did, with the recorded votes.
Each Eatonville Town Council and CRA meeting gets an agenda breakdown before it happens and a recap once it's over. Past agendas stay available in the archive.
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1 meetingSeptember 17, 2026 CRA Board Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
The CRA Board is asked to adopt all three of its big September documents in one night: a budget, a policy manual and amended bylaws. The budget has grown from $3.0 million in the September 14 workshop packet to $5.6 million, and almost all of the increase is tax money the CRA expects to receive and return. The manual is not attached to the resolution that adopts it. The bylaws are on the consent agenda, and their Exhibit A is a heading with nothing after it.
Past
most recent firstSeptember 15, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Recap
Neither public hearing was opened. The rental-homes ordinance was tabled after the Town's attorney told the Council that a 2023 state law reserves the regulation of residential rentals to the state, and that the draft could not lawfully be enacted as written. The farmers-market ordinance was tabled too, because members wanted a printed zoning map first. The night's only two resolutions were walk-on items that never appeared in the posted packet: a request for a federal audit of the Town's post office, and an emergency resolution hiring a new law firm for six months at $10,000 a month.
September 14, 2026 CRA Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
Two documents, no votes. The first is a new 28-page rulebook, with 21 blank forms, that would let the Executive Director approve purchases up to $25,000 alone. Today's bylaws require a Board vote above $7,500, and the bylaws rewrite the Board is still discussing would require the Chair's signature too. The second is the agency's proposed budget for the year starting October 1: $3,000,583, nearly double this year's. Of that, $892,083 is money the CRA says the Town still owes it from 1997–2006, and $1,700,000 is a bank loan.
September 9, 2026 Town Council First Budget Hearing — Agenda Breakdown
After six workshops, the Council takes its first votes on next year's budget. Two things are decided: the property-tax rate, and the budget ordinance on first reading. The rate is the same 7.2938 mills the Town has charged for more than a decade, but because property values rose, Florida's rules count it as a 6.38% tax increase this year. The General Fund that was $187,929 short a week ago now balances, mainly by counting $384,972 of the Town's reserves as next year's income — and it adds a new $95,000 Project Manager job at the same time. The second and final hearing is set for September 21.
September 8, 2026 CRA Bylaws Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
On August 20 the CRA Board set its amended bylaws aside before the adopting resolution was even read, for legal cleanup of the marked-up copy. On September 8 the same document is back for another workshop. Set the two packets side by side and the twelve marked-up pages — the "redline," with new words underlined in red and deleted words struck through — are the same twelve pages, mark for mark, down to a typo. Nothing from the August 20 discussion is written into it, and no memo explains what the cleanup was or whether it happened.
September 3, 2026 Town Council Budget Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
A sixth workshop nobody had scheduled a week ago. It was set from the dais on September 1 after the Town Clerk said the Council was not ready for its first budget hearing, and its agenda is the same single line as the last three. What is new is the packet now posted for the fifth workshop, a file stamped 5:30 PM on September 1, the moment that meeting began. Its worksheets drop the proposed raises for the Mayor and Council, put the Finance Director back at $82,082, and show the General Fund $187,929 short of balancing, under a printed reminder that state law requires a balanced budget.
September 1, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Recap
No votes. The one item put before the Council for action — a walk-on resolution amending the current year's budget for a personnel and salary adjustment — died when no member moved it. The HostDime discussion put a number on the record that the packet never had: $99,250 in daily penalties accrued as of meeting night, none of it collected. It ended with a direction to the Town Attorney and administration to meet with the company, not a vote. And the Town Clerk said the Council was not ready for its first budget hearing, so a sixth workshop was set for Thursday, September 3.